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Furniture Design Schools in Chicago

Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has seven furniture design schools within its city limits. Robert Morris College, the highest ranked school in the city with a furniture design program, has a total student population of 4,619. It is the 3235th highest ranked school in the USA and the 119th highest in the state of Illinois (#1 is Northwestern University). To learn more about furniture design programs in Chicago, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of furniture design professors at Robert Morris College such as Claire Epperly.

Furniture Design students from Chicago schools who go on to become furniture makers, craftsmen, furniture designers, furniture upholsterers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 29,170 people working as commercial and industrial designers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $61,400. Also, Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers make on average $29,010 per year and there are about 14,220 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are ** employed textile, apparel, and furnishings workers earning an average salary of $26,710. Commercial and industrial designers in this area earn $50,910/yr and there are 1,000 employed.

Chicago lies in Cook county, which is one of the 49 counties in Illinois. Overall, the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area has 3,669,800 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,910 average annual salary. Thus, about 0 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by commercial and industrial designers, and **/1000 are held by textile, apparel, and furnishings workers.

Of the 7 furniture design schools in Chicago, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($28,726/yr) for furniture design students, with Robert Morris College as the lowest, reported at only $16,956/yr.

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